Game-board



E. N. LAMBERT.

GAME BOABDi APPLICATION FILED JAN- 8, 1920. V 1 ,353,76%, PatentedSept.21; 1920;.

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v a I, f A GAME-BOARD.

To all whom it may co m Be it known that I, EMMA N. LAMBERT, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of Bethlehem, in the county ofNorthampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and ImprovedGame-Board, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to improvementsin game boards, an object of theinvention being to provide a novel arrangement of lines and spacesforuse with game pieces for the playing" of different games.

A further object is, to provide a game board which will be ornamentaland attrace tive in appearance, which will be cheap to manufacture, andwhich will be entertaining in use.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, and combinations and arrangements ofparts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out inthe claims.

. In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improvedgame board; and

Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are views of game pieces which are employed inconnection with the board.

1 represents my improved game board which is preferably rectangular inshape and which is provided with longitudinal and transverseintersectinglines 2 and 3,

all'of the lines 2 being parallel and all of the lines 3 being paralleland equally spaced apart forming a plurality of squares 4: of equalsize. The lines forming the squares 4 are spaced from the edges of theboard and inthe corners of the board circular spaces 6 are provided. Atthe sides of the field formed by the squares 4;, relatively large spaces7 are provided and these spaces 7 cover nine of the squares 4 or a spacewhich is equivalentto nine of the squares 4. These spaces 7 I shallrefer to as base spaces to distinguish them from other spaces on theboard.

The spaces 4 at the center of the board are numerals in regular-order asfollows: (C 77 77 (6 7, C ,7 C 77 C 77 "4 77 i i I 3 2, 1.1 0-, 8 2 5,oneof the numerals 3 and one of the numerals will hereinafter appear. AA

In the corners of the space 9, known as Specification of Letters Patent;Pat nted Sept, 21,1920.

Application filed January '8, 1920. Serial o. 350,100.

divided from therest of the board by lines 8 whichform, in effect, asquare and this space, confined by the lines 8, is known as a .safetyzone and the caption Safety zone ,is located on the board at allfoursides' of the space 9. In the center of theboard, and hence in thecenter ofv the safety zone space 9, a circular space 10 is provided andthereof. The spaces on the dial contain are-inclosed in circles for apurpose which the safety zone, four circularspaces 13 are provided.Certain of thesquares or, spaces A outside of the safety zone aredistinguished from the other squares by coloring divided by radial linesllflto form a dial having ajrotary pointer l2 at the center themdifferently from the other squares.

These differently vcolored squares I have given the reference numeral 1and they-may be of a green color, orany othercolor de- :sired. One basespace ,7 is given a color which corresponds with the color of one of thecircular spaces 6 and one of the circular spacesl3, and all of the basespaces are differently colored and each base space has a correspondinglycolored space 6 and space 13. p e A In the corners of the board diagonallines 15 and 16 are provided and, numerals 1,

angles of the squares which are intersected bythelines15 and 16. Thelines 16.are

,just long enough to reach from onecorner to the other of onesquare,-while the lines 15 cross four of the squares, and the numeralssuch number and color as may be desired andv as will more fullyhereinafter appear in the description of two games which may be playedon my improved board.

In playing one game, which I designate as Unity game, I employtwenty-eight game pieces 17 for four players, each player being providedwith seven of these pieces which are preferably colored in accordance.with the color of the base spaces 7. Each player places the game pieces17 on the angles at the right of his base space, and for the purposes ofthe game, the pieces on spaces marked land 2 represent oiiicers and theother pieces soldiers.

Each player is provided with three game pieces or balls 18 and eachplayer uses'these balls placing them on his base space 7 and shooting orotherwise forcing them diagonally across the board toward the gamepieces of the enemy in an endeavor to knock down said game, pieces. Eachplayer has three shots and on the first shot the ofiicers knocked downcount two, on the second shot four, and on the third shot eight points.On the first shot privates knocked down count one point, on the secondshot two points, and on the third shot four points. Each player plays inturn from his base space 7 rolling the same ball three times or threedifferent balls once each, and the purpose of the game is to give theimpression of soldiers being killed leaving the survivors to moveforwardly into the safety zone space, each player moving his survivors anumber of squares or spaces equal to the number of points he attains byshooting at the enemy and the first player to place all of his survivorsin the safety zone wins the game. It is, of course, to be understoodthat if a player has all of his men killed, he is out of the game andonly a player with his survivors has any chance of winning. Inconnection with this game a score must necessarily be kept and anaccurate account of the points made for the movement of the pieces. Thisoperation may be repeated as many times as desired and at the conclusionof the play, the player having the largest score wins the game.

In playing another game, which I designate as. Luck eleven I providetwenty four. game pieces 19, such as shown in Fig. 4:, providing each ofthe players with siX of these game pieces colored according to thecolors of the circular spaces 6 in the corners of theboard. These gamepieces are placed in a pile on the spaces 6 and the first player beginsby turning the pointer 12 and he moves one piece 19, beginning at thecorner of the board, the number of spaces on the board according to thedial as indicated by the pointer. If the pointer stops at one of thespaces in which the numerals are inclosed in the circle, he movesbackwardly or retreats that number of spaces, and if the games, it isobvious that the board and game pieces may be utilized for playingvarious games and for playing the same games above referred to in aslightly dliferent way,

- and hence, I do not wish to be limited to any particular rules forplaying any part1cular game, but wish to cover broadly my 1mproved gameapparatus as dlsclosed in my game board and game pieces.

Various slight changes may be made in the general form and arrangementof parts describe-d without departing from the invention, and hence I donot limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myselfat liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall withinthe spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A game board having lines thereon forming spaces, lines at the centerof the board forming a space under the caption Safety zone, a circularspace in the center of the safety zone space having radial lines forminga dial, a rotary pointer mounted on the dial, and circular spaces in thecorners of thesafety zone space and at the extreme corners of the board,the circular spaces in the safety zone space of different 7 colors andthe circular spaces at the corners of the board corresponding in colorto the colors of the circular spaces in the safety zone space.

2. A game board having lines thereon forming rectangular spaces,relatively large spaces at the sides of the board forming base spaces, arectangular space at the center of the board under the caption Safetyzone, numerals on the angles of certain of the spaces at the cornersofthe board, game pieces adapted to be positioned on the numerals, andballs adapted to be rolled from the base spaces in an endeavor to knockdown certain of the first-mentioned game pieces. 7

3. A. game board divided by lines at right to each other forming spaces,diagonal lines at the corners of the board intersecting certain of theangles of said crossed lines, numerals on said diagonal lines, the

numerals l. and 2 bein on one of said lines at each corner and thenumerals 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on the other of said lines in. each corner.said numerals adapted to receive thereon suitable game pieces, and othergame pieces adapted to be used to knock wn the first-mentioned pieces.

A. game board havi lines thereon at right angles to each other formingrectangucenter, of the board separating the center of law spaces,relatlvely large spaces at the sldes the board from the rest of theboard form- 10 t the board eovermg a plurahty of saw 111g 21 space underthe capt10nS-ufety zone, first-mentloned spaces and of a colorcllfferand certaln of the spaces outslde of the ing fr-em the rest ofthe board, numerals on safety zone colored dlfi'erently from the anglee01" the first-mentioned spaces adother of szud spaces.

ar-e11 the corners OI the board adapted to receive game pieces thereon,lines at the EMMA N. LAMBERT.

